Re: Backend crashes in 7.0.3
Dirk Lutzebäck <lutzeb@aeccom.com>
From: Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb@aeccom.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-12-27T09:54:13Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Tom Lane writes: > Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb@aeccom.com> writes: > > It may be that there is some kernel corruption appearing here. I'm > > using kernel nfs on Linux 2.2.10 with a Solaris8 i86pc client. I saw > > some weird NFS error messages on the Linux system which are related to > > the solaris client. I suspect the kernel nfs daemon corrupting memory > > areas where postgres shared mem resides. I'm currently trying to dig more into > > the problem. Could this be possible? > > Seems like a bizarre theory. In particular, why would 7.0.3 be affected > and not 7.0.2? Sorry, it seems I was on the wrong track. It has nothing do to with NFS, I just panicked... I'm currently looking into ApacheDBI a modperl utility to reuse open db connections. In any case the backend messages are odd. It seems I misunderstand ApacheDBI loosing a DB connection with a backend crash. Dirk